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The five thousand stones of military rations sent from Songzhou had just arrived in Jiangzhou where the King of Liang was stationed. He Delun and Hou Yan, who were located in the Shangdang Plain, also sent military reports to the King of Liang. He Delun and Hou Yan stated in the military reports that the Lulong Army in front of them had increased its troops.
Ten thousand people, not the original three or four thousand people. At the same time, the military report also swore that on the seventh day of June, a new reinforcement force was added to the Lulong Army in front of them. The total strength now exceeds twelve thousand people.
And the number of cavalry reached three thousand.
He Delun and Hou Yan said that in the face of so many Lulong cavalry, they really could not afford to go west, otherwise Zezhou would be in danger of being lost. Once Zezhou was lost, the Lulong Army and the Hedong Army could pour out from the Taihang Mountains and go straight down to Henan.
, Luoyang and Bianzhou will both face the threat of Lu Longqi, and when the time comes, they will become Xuanwu's sinners.
The two also said that due to the threat of the Lu Long Cavalry and the "weapons" of the Lu Long Army, the two military camps at the front and back of Shangdong Mountain were finally lost after more than a month of arduous defense. Gao Ping is now in front of the Lu Long Army.
Next, the situation is critical.
For this reason, He Delun and Hou Yan not only could not send troops to the west, but also asked the King of Liang for reinforcements, hoping that the King of Liang could mobilize a cavalry, even if it was only a few hundred cavalry, to reinforce Gaoping and fight against the Lulong cavalry.
They said that if there were no cavalry reinforcements, they would have to send more troops to Zezhou to defend key places in Zezhou.
Well, King Liang finally figured it out from the military reports of the two men. He Delun and Hou Yan controlled tens of thousands of powerful troops, but they were defeated in Zezhou. They even lost the crucial military stronghold of Dongshan. But Liang
The king could not blame them. The Xuanwu Army was indeed short of horses. This was an undeniable fact. In addition, these two men had always been important generals in the Xuanwu Army, and they were guarding critical areas. Once punished, things could easily go wrong.
The King of Liang then sent a letter to appease the two of them, and asked them to guard Zezhou and ensure the safety of Luoyang and Bianzhou. However, the King of Liang did not say anything about sending troops for reinforcements. He thought this was an expression that the two did not want to send troops.
And excuses. Tens of thousands of people cannot defeat thousands of people. The King of Liang is already angry enough. How can he send troops to them? As for the strength of the Lulong Army. The King of Liang absolutely does not believe it. What has "gathered tens of thousands of people"? What?
One day, reinforcements were called in? King Liang knew how many people there were in the Lu Long Army. The Lu Long Army needed to guard the Xiangwei side, and there were still 20,000 people on the Qingqing side. How could there be enough left to send 10,000 people to the top?
party?
King Liang did not accuse He Delun and Hou Yan unjustly, but his suspicions were not entirely correct. On the seventh day of June, a Lulong army did enter the combat sequence of Shangdang's camp. But it was not a reinforcement, but a rotation. It was originally part of the Yingzhou army.
A spearman battalion and a sword-shield battalion were transferred back to Weizhou, and their replacements were a spearman battalion and a sword-shield battalion drawn from the Guizhou army.
Next month, the bow and arrow battalions and cavalry battalions of the Mozhou Army will also be transferred back to Xiangzhou. Mobilization has already begun in the Fanyang Camp. By then, the two battalions of the Dingzhou Army will be transferred to Shangdang to participate in the battle against the Xuanwu Army.
of rounds of battle.
Not only the Shangdang area. The Lulong Army on the Qingqing side also began the second round of troop transfers. A cavalry unit entered Yuguan from the distant Bailang Mountain and passed through Pingzhou, Youzhou and Cangzhou. At Dizhou, it boarded the
The ship then crossed the Yellow River and reported to the Qingqing Camp in Bochang.
The Jishui area in Qingqing is another pole in the two-river war strategy of the Lulong Military Staff General Administration. Bochang, located on the bank of Jishui, also established the Bochang camp. Qingqing is backed by the river, and across the river is Lulong
Dizhou is under its jurisdiction. Therefore, it is much easier to transport grain and baggage and supply troops. In addition, the Lulong Army has been fighting here for many years, and the cooperation between the Heping Lu Army is quite harmonious. Therefore, the scale of Bochang's camp is larger than that of Shangdang's camp.
Much larger and with much higher specifications.
The operational direction of the Bochang camp is Qianqing, and the main operational purpose is one: to maintain the presence of the Lulong Army in Qianqing, to assist the Pinglu Army against Xuanwu, and to contain the main military strength of the Xuanwu Army in eastern Henan. In fact, the Lianghe Army of the General Administration of Military Staff
The basis for formulating the round-war strategy comes from the combat experience in the Qingqing area over the past year. Although the Bochang camp was established at the same time as the Shangdang camp, both in April this year, its existence has already existed. When the Shangdang camp was established
When the camp began its second wave of rotation, the sergeants under the control of the Bochang camp had already rotated to the third wave.
Because the Lulong Army successfully achieved its strategic goal in the Qingqing area in the third year of Tianfu, the original Dingzhou Army, Weizhou Army and Huaiyue Allied Army, which totaled nearly 20,000 people, had become slightly bloated. To bear such a large-scale overseas combat corps for a long time, for
It is also a big burden for the Logistics Department of the Lulong Army. In view of this, starting from the winter of the third year of Tianfu, the Lulong Army gradually reduced the size of its garrison in the Qingqing area and gave appropriate rotational rest to the sergeants.
By June of the first year of Tianyou, the Lulong garrison stationed in various places in Qingqing had dropped sharply to more than 12,000 people, and the original military establishments had almost been completely disrupted. In the army sequence of the Bochang camp, both
There are main battalions like the Cangzhou Army, secondary battalions like the Weizhou Army and the Huaiyue Allied Army, and there are also new barracks like the Dingzhou Army, Guizhou Army, and Youzhou Army.
Now, even the Zhaozhou Army, a new recruit in the military establishment of the Lulong Military Staff General Administration, rushed to Bochang from outside Bailang Mountain and joined the battle sequence of the Bochang camp.
Ren Sui'an is seventeen years old this year and is an ordinary soldier in the left wing of the Zhaozhou Army. The Zhaozhou Army is the only fully-organized cavalry army in the Lulong Army. It was officially formed at the end of the first year of Tianyou's first year. It has been training outside the pass for five months and has the skills.
The cavalry battalion of the second cavalry camp on the left side where Ren Sui'an was located was also eagerly sent to Bochang by the capital commander Zhao Ba to test the results of the five months of training.
After the ferry crossed the river, Ren Sui'an felt unwell as soon as he got off the boat. This was also a common problem among soldiers in Hebei - seasickness. The Bochang camp had a special military camp at the ferry. In addition to storing the baggage and grain that had been transported across the river, it was also used to receive people who had just crossed the river.
The New Army. Regarding the symptoms of seasickness, the Logistics Department of the Lulong Army has a very mature response process.
After resting for a moment, Ren Sui'an, who was still dizzy after vomiting all the filth that should be vomited in his stomach, was driven to an open space to gather under the scolding of the officer. After they were all gathered together, they immediately drove into the nearby military camp.
As soon as they entered the military camp, they saw rows of military tents that had been set up. Ren Sui'an forced himself to reach the military tents and lay down on the hay mat with his fellow brothers.
About half an hour later, a team of doctors and nurses dressed in black came to the curtain, one person serving each other, picking up the soldiers who had fallen on the ground, and pouring soup into their mouths. Ren Sui'an took a few sips, but he couldn't tell clearly.
What exactly is this soup made from? Anyway, it's a little spicy and slightly sweet. I feel much better after drinking it.
Before crossing the river, a navy brother told them that there was a dedicated person to take care of the war horses. Therefore, Ren Sui'an and the others were not in a hurry and rested in the military tent. Those with severe seasickness would just fall asleep, while those with mild symptoms would whisper.
chat.
Ren Sui'an felt very dizzy, so he fell asleep in a daze. He didn't know how long he slept, but he was woken up by his own head, and then he followed everyone out of the military tent. It was already dusk, and the evening breeze was blowing on his face.
Ren Sui'an suddenly felt refreshed.
There are already a dozen backpacks piled up outside the camp. These are the bags used by the brothers to carry their belongings. The backpacks were originally hung on horses, but now they have been sent outside the military tents of each group. Each person's name is embroidered on the backpack.
name, so everyone quickly claimed it. Ren Sui'an fiddled with his backpack, took out the dry food bag, and took out a wooden bowl, waited outside the tent for a while, and then carried it over from the logistics soldiers who were constantly patrolling by.
He put a bowl of hot soup into a wooden bucket, then squatted outside the tent and started eating.
There were hard buns and dried meat in the dry food package, and there were plump fresh meat slices and vegetables in the soup. Ren Sui'an broke up the hard buns and soaked them in the soup, then took out the wooden chopsticks and started chewing. While eating the noodle buns soaked in the soup, he gnawed
One bite of dried meat filled my stomach.
There was nothing to do that night, so the brothers in the group did as they pleased. Some gathered together to talk, some simply went to other camps to visit, and some who had not recovered yet fell asleep on the hay pile.
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When the horn blew, the sergeants from each group returned to their tents, and the whole camp suddenly became silent. After a while, all the soldiers and troops were coming together, and they opened the curtains and looked inside. The group leader asked a few people
The Shangguan reported the situation of the group in a low voice, and then the soldiers and troops left with satisfaction.
The next morning, Ren Sui'an and his brothers went to the horse camp together, and found his war horse in the camp. Ren Sui'an hugged the horse's neck and had a good intimacy, and patted the horse's back. The war horse stayed close to Ren Sui'an, and kept talking.
He turned his head and rubbed Ren Sui'an's cheek, which made Ren Sui'an so itchy that he couldn't help but sneeze several times.
He led the war horse to a pond. The water in the pond was diverted from a big river and was very clean. Ren Sui'an and his brothers scrubbed the horse's body together, making the horse black and translucent. Then he returned the war horse with satisfaction.
The logistics soldiers of the camp and stables put chopped hay in the food stall. Ren Sui'an grabbed a handful in the palm of his hand and twisted it hard. He found that the chopped hay was mixed with a little wheat bran and even ground.
I feel very satisfied with the bean paste.
After resting for a day in the military camp next to the ferry, Ren Sui'an's second battalion of the Zhaozhou Army's left wing cavalry began to march toward Bochang. A wide official road has been paved between the ferry and Bochang, and walking along the official road is very smooth. There are times on the official road.
The messengers and convoys carrying baggage were moving rapidly. They passed by Ren Sui'an, and Ren Sui'an and his brothers gradually felt a hint of the atmosphere of the battlefield. (To be continued...)